http://www.ncreview.com/ http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/diet-for-a-new-america-25th-anniversay-edition http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/diet-for-a-new-america-25th-anniversay-edition Originally published in 1987, Diet for a New America awakened the conscience of a nation with its startling examination of the food we buy and eat — and the moral, economic, and medical price we pay for it. Drawing a clear line connecting America’s factory farm system with disease, animal cruelty, and ecological crises, Robbins makes perhaps the most... ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:00:00 -0800 2898 2012-11-29 5 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_73546-1354158006.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/limits-to-growth-the-30-year-update http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/limits-to-growth-the-30-year-update In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their... ]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:41:00 -0800 2890 2012-11-27 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_limits-to-growth-1353980468.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/conscious-business/the-necessary-revolution-how-individuals-and-organizations-are-working-together-to-create-a-sustainable-world http://www.ncreview.com/conscious-business/the-necessary-revolution-how-individuals-and-organizations-are-working-together-to-create-a-sustainable-world Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than... ]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:24:00 -0800 2875 2012-11-21 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51tq1l1i8el-1353471857.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/conscious-business/thinking-in-systems-a-primer http://www.ncreview.com/conscious-business/thinking-in-systems-a-primer In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth--the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet-- Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadows' newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering... ]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:47:00 -0800 2869 2012-11-18 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51nnrzbjsl-1353210429.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/the-righteous-mind-why-good-people-are-divided-by-politics-and-religion http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/the-righteous-mind-why-good-people-are-divided-by-politics-and-religion Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous... ]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:00:00 -0800 2863 2012-11-16 5 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_412hxjvwbl-1353096056.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/no-impact-man-the-adventures-of-a-guilty-liberal-who-attempts-to-save-the-planet-and-the-discoveries-he-makes-about-himself-and-our-way-of-life-in-the-process http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/no-impact-man-the-adventures-of-a-guilty-liberal-who-attempts-to-save-the-planet-and-the-discoveries-he-makes-about-himself-and-our-way-of-life-in-the-process What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his young daughter and his Prada-wearing wife along for the ride. Together they attempted to make zero... ]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:57:00 -0800 2834 2012-11-06 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51unoydpyvl-1352221024.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/heist-who-stole-the-american-dream http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/heist-who-stole-the-american-dream This film portrays the takeover of the American political economy by mega-corporations, through a coordinated strategy initially proposed by Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell in 1971. ]]> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:07:00 -0700 2824 2012-11-01 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51wsvefyil-sl500-aa300--1351796842.jpg ]]> http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/the-one-world-schoolhouse-education-reimagined http://www.ncreview.com/activisism/the-one-world-schoolhouse-education-reimagined Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, has written what is destined to become one of the most influential books about education in our time.A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling... ]]> Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:32:00 -0700 2808 2012-10-28 5 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_one-world-1351391551.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-wakeful-world-animism-mind-and-the-self-in-nature http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-wakeful-world-animism-mind-and-the-self-in-nature Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul. Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall... ]]> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:13:00 -0700 2790 2012-10-24 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_41r7dbgtw-l-1351098794.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/conscious-business/the-self-made-myth-and-the-truth-about-how-government-helps-individuals-and-businesses-succeed http://www.ncreview.com/conscious-business/the-self-made-myth-and-the-truth-about-how-government-helps-individuals-and-businesses-succeed The Self-Made Myth exposes the false claim that business success is the result of heroic individual effort with little or no outside help. Brian Miller and Mike Lapham bust the myth and present profiles of business leaders who recognize the public investments and supports that made their success possible—including Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s,... ]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:40:00 -0700 2771 2012-10-17 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_self-made-myth-1350452412.jpg